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...returning to the West and Hausas to the North. With communications closed, trade between the regions has come to a standstill. Even Nigeria's universities, traditionally neutral meeting places for members of feuding tribes, have been crippled by the new crisis. Almost all the Ibos at the University of Ibadan in the Yoruba West have retreated to the University of Nsukka in the East. In late December, Dr. Kenneth Dike, head of the University of Ibadan and an Ibo, followed suit, complaining that he lacked "the support" of the community around the university...
Easterners are Christian, democratic, enterprising-and far wealthier than the Northerners. The Yoruba Westerners, whose capital of Ibadan (pop. 750,000) is Nigeria's largest city and the world's largest shantytown, are farmers and small traders whose passions are High-Life music and politics, often accompanied by endless draughts of pungent palm wine...
Panic in Lagos. The coup was a bloody affair. In the Western regional capital of Ibadan, where Ironsi had gone to plead for national unity before a meeting of tribal chiefs and emirs, Northern officers kidnaped him from the governor's palace and ordered him at gunpoint into a military Land Rover; his body was reportedly discovered last week outside a nearby village. At the army barracks at Ikeja, near the Lagos international airport, Northerners shot down every Ibo officer they could find, pursued others through Lagos itself, causing widespread panic in the capital; after one shooting incident, dozens...
Last week, with the furies of both sides boiling high, Ironsi decided to venture out of his Lagos sanctuary to preach national togetherness at a meeting of Northern political bosses in the nearby regional capital of Ibadan. Hardly had he arrived in the sprawling shantytown city than he was taken prisoner by rebellious troops, while other in surrectionists grabbed control of the Lagos airport and the important marketing town of Abeokuta. The capital itself was quiet, although cable and phone connections were cut and strict censorship imposed. Government radio assured the nation that "the situation is under control." There...
However, Parry explains that the students at Ibadan did not pose the same revolutionary threat to colonial or "imperialist" regimes that many university students in underdeveloped countries do today. The enrollment was limited to those few whom the facilities could easily accommodate, and "we could not afford to admit hangers-on or professional agitators who would disregard their studies," he explains...